In emphasizing mastery of facts and ideas, I am not advocating a return to the sterile procedures of rote memorization of extensive creedal or biblical material. (religion-online.org)
The traditional methods of assimilating knowledge, by rote learning for instance, advocated by the likes of Amy Chua (interviewed in Weekend last January) in her seminal book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, do not necessarily prepare children for the successful futures we assume they will. (telegraph.co.uk)
Learning to spell is not a tedious process of rote memorization of each and every word. (teachermagazine.com.au)